Craft Blog

This is less tutorial (it’s as simple as drawing on a plate) and more review, but I recently discovered these porcelain pens in Spotlight and I am completely in love.
You Will Need

One Porcelain pen – they’re made by “Pebeo” and I found them in my local Spotlight in the craft section with the regular ink [...]

I love the classic look of silhouette profiles, and they’re a great way to keep track of how your family’s features change over time, cheap and simple to do.
You will need

Black card
Scrapbooking paper
Frames – I also picked up some acylic paint to stain them black
Sharp scissors or a craft knife
A clear picture of the profile [...]

I read A LOT of craftblogs, I love the huge amount of inspiration out there on the internet and the generosity of people wanting to share their skills with the world. So yesterday when I stumbled onto Knock Off Wood after finding a link on Craft Rookie, I was gobsmacked. I sat there for a [...]

My lovely friend Shanni showed off her new camera strap the other day and I was instantly jealous. I have no idea why it had never occured to me to cover up the big chunk of black with “EOS” written all over it, so, inspired by Shanni’s purchase, I set about giving my camera strap [...]

Tiffany Bird of Simply Modern Mom recently wrote about making over her master bedroom on a budget. The transformation was amazing, turning a fairly standard mismatched bedroom into a sanctuary within her home.

One of the things that stood out for me were the tree canvases above the dresser, like most artwork they’re simple but very [...]

Remember the Moo Cards I used on our Christmas gift tags?
Well the season is now very much over (although I still have yet to pull our Christmas tree down!) and I’m left with about 50 cards with pictures of the family on them and “Love, Fern, Dan, Declan, Connor & #3″ written on the back. [...]

Ellen from The Long Thread has released her annual round up of her top 100 craft tutorials from the past year, and there are some amazing ideas on there. Every day I am amazed at the creativity and genorosity of people within the crafting world.

My favourites from their list:

Little Forest Quilt from The Purl Bee [...]

So far you will have completed Step One – Cutting. Step Two covers the construction of the off centre/wonky logcabin blocks.
This is probably the most sewing intensive step of the week, from start to finish it took me about five hours to make 30 blocks, so you’ll want to set aside a good portion of [...]

I’m kicking myself for not thinking of this before Christmas as a gift for my crafty Mum, it’s so easy, took about half an hour to whip up and the finished result is awesome. So if you need a place to keep stray needles and have a few selvedges laying around, read on!
Apologies in advance [...]

After all the interest in Declan’s Log Cabin quilt I’ve decided to make Connor’s quilt a community project. For the next few weeks I will be outlining one step a day to lead you to the finished quilt.
The entire project can be done within a weekend, but as a busy Mum I know there is [...]